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2025 UNI Volleyball Highlight Video

 

Panthers 4-PEAT as Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) regular season and tournament champs!

  • Panthers won 22 consecutive matches for the third year in a row

  • 26-6 overall record, UNI clinched its fourth consecutive MVC regular season and tournament titles

  • Third straight undefeated Missouri Valley Conference regular season

  • UNI selected as a 6-seed and one of the top 32 seeds in the NCAA Tournament for the third year in a row 

  • Three wins against the NCAA RPI's Top 40

  • Top 5 in the nation for third straight year in kills per set and assists per set

  • Challenging pre-season matches against #13 Arizona State, South Dakota State, #11 SMU, Washington, Iowa State, Rice, #9 Louisville, and #10 Creighton

18-0
MVC Regular Season Champions
MVC Tournament Champions
MVC Regular Season Champs
MVC Regular Season Champs
#3 in Nation Assists Per Set
#2 in Nation Kills Per Set

NCAA Tournament

This year marked UNI's 27th NCAA Tournament appearance.

For the third straight year the Panthers were awarded one of the top 32 seeds in the NCAA Tournament and the highest seed earned in over a decade.  UNI would draw Big 12 opponent Utah in the first round of the tournament in Omaha, NE.  The Panthers pulled out an amazing 5-set reverse sweep over the Utes, securing the programs 18th NCAA tournament victory.

UNI would then face host and #3 seeded Creighton.  It was an absolute battle till the end but Panthers would fall in 4-sets in front of a sold out crowd.

Utah Celebration
Utah Celebration
UNI vs Utah Score
Top 5
Top 5

in the NATION

UNI ranked in the Top 5 in the national for kills per set (14.6) for the third straight year.

NCAA Team Stats - Kills Per Set
Top 5
Top 5

in the NATION

UNI ranked in the Top 5 in the national for assists per set (13.6) for the third straight year.

NCAA Team Stats - Assists Per Set
Top 25
Top 25 Poll

National Ranking

UNI finished the 2025 season just outside the final Top 25 Coaches Poll, receiving votes and finishing 31st!

AVCA Top 25 Poll
Top 30
Top 30

#26 in National Attendance

UNI finished the 2025 season ranked in the Top 26 in the nation in attendance for all home matches.  Ahead of Iowa State, Indiana, Kansas, Kansas State, SMU, TCU...etc.

UNI has been ranked in the Top 30 in the nation in attendance 23 of the past 25 seasons.

NCAA Women's Volleyball Attendance
NCAA Logo
Top 25

National RPI

UNI has finished ranked in the Top 30 in RPI in each of the past four seasons.

NCAA Women's Volleyball RPI
41st
41st

20-Win Season

The 2025 season was the 41st 20-win season for UNI Volleyball.

Season Awards

  • Cassidy Hartman was named MVC Player of the Year, marking the 14th time a Panther has earned the league’s MVP award and the second straight year for a UNI Panther to earn the award.

  • Head coach Bobbi Petersen was named MVC Coach of the Year for
    a record 10th time.

  • Cassidy Hartman was joined by Lily Dykstra and Maryn Bixby as UNI earned three First Team All-MVC selections this season.

  • Lindsay Oldendorf and Jadyn Petersen both earned Second Team All-MVC honors.

  • Jadyn Petersen, Maryn Bixby, and Isabelle Elliot were named MVC All-Freshmen Team.

  • Academically, Hartman was named College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-American Second Team.  Reese Booth, Lily Dykstra, Cassidy Hartman, and Taryn Rice were all named CSC Academic All-District.

  • UNI Volleyball finished the 2025 Fall Semester with an incredible 3.83 GPA.

Player of the Year
Coach of the Year
First Team All-MVC
Second Team All-MVC
MVC All-Freshmen Team
MVC Scholar-Athlete Team
AVCA All-Region
AVCA All-Region Honorable Mention
AVCA Region Coach of the Year
AVCA All-American Honorable Mention
Academic All-American Second Team

Impressive History of the UNI Volleyball Program

  • UNI has won a total of 21 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Championships and 23 Missouri Valley Conference Regular Season Championships
  • 27 NCAA tournament appearances & has advanced to at least the second round 18 times
  • 3 NCAA Sweet 16 appearances
  • The 2025 season marked the 41st 20-win season
  • UNI has gone 77-1 in the last four years against MVC opponents
  • Only UNI, Hawaii, Nebraska, Stanford, Penn State, and UCLA have had over 40 consecutive non-losing seasons in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball
  • UNI posted 35 consecutive NCAA Division I winning seasons - and was the sixth-longest active streak in the nation behind Hawaii (38), Nebraska (38), Penn State (38), Stanford (38), and UCLA (36)
  • UNI has been ranked in 119 polls in AVCA Top 25 history featuring 25 appearances in the Top 10 and appeared in the polls in both 2018 and 2019 and received votes in the final poll in both 2024 & 2025
  • 147 All-MVC selections including 99 All-MVC First-Team selections, 17 MVC Players of the Year, and 18 MVC Tournament MVP's
  • 46 Panthers have been voted to the AVCA’s all-district or all-region teams
  • 20 AVCA All-America honors
  • Bobbi Petersen - National Coach of the Year (2002); Central Region Coach of the Year (2001, 2002, 2018, 2019, 2025); MVC Coach of the Year (2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
  • UNI has ranked in the top-30 in home attendance 23 of last 25 seasons